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Cargo Flight Launches a Vital Link in the Ebola Response Effort

MIT Supply Chain

The other members of the consortium are the University of Massachusetts Medical School, which leads the current initiative, the Boston Children’s Hospital, Avenir Analytics, and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The 63 metric ton air shipment of personal protective equipment (PPE) and sanitation supplies valued at some $1.8

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Amazon’s New Last Mile Program Will Improve Customer Service, But Higher Emissions Will Result

Logistics Viewpoints

In a later phase, deliveries are targeted to expand to large, dense cities including Seattle, New York, Los Angeles, Boston, and Hoboken New jersey. million metric tons of the company’s CO2 emissions are attributed to fossil fuel emissions. But that 85% metric makes things sound better than they really are. a package.

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This Week in Logistics News (December 2 – 8)

Logistics Viewpoints

I saw an article recently about a cargo flight headed to Belgium from New York that had to turn around mid-flight. The pilot called air traffic control in Boston and reported: “We don’t have a problem as of flying-wise but we need to return, return back to New York. The process releases nearly twice as much CO2 per metric ton (1.1